Usually means: Requiring precise accuracy and diligence.
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  1. exacting: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exacting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exacting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exacting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exacting: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exacting, exacting: Wordnik
  7. exacting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exacting: Wiktionary
  9. exacting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exacting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exacting: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exacting, exacting: Dictionary.com
  13. exacting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Exacting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. exacting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. exacting: Rhymezone
  17. exacting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. exacting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. exacting: Free Dictionary
  20. exacting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. exacting: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exacting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exacting: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Exacting: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See exact as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
adjective:  (of an action, task, etc) Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
adjective:  (of a person or organization) Characterized by exaction.

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